Palliative care management is emerging as a fundamental part of health sector involved in treatment and care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. Every year 6 million people in India need palliative care. 60% of patients die with prolonged illness in suffering embarking need for more palliative care units. Current article deals with the management of palliative cancer care in India.
WHO defines palliative care as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care is important for life-threatening diseases like cancer where patients are impaired physically and psychologically. In India,…
